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My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist and icthyologist.


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GEORGE GREY Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c...
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GEORGE CLOONEY I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
GEORGE OSBORNE Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastr...
GEORGE OSBORNE It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON To morrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in h...
GEORGE WASHINGTON We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, s...
GEORGE WASHINGTON No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of me...
GEORGE WASHINGTON It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Enjoin this upon the Officers, and let them inculcate, and press home to the Soldiery, the Necessity...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppre...
GEORGE WASHINGTON To admit then a right in the House of Representatives to demand, and to have as a matter of course, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON